Nearly a year ago, the FBI rolled out flowcharts and pie graphs in a PowerPoint presentation that could have been titled: How the Sausage is Made, College Basketball Style. It is a process that seemingly everyone around the sport had already grasped, save the people who actually govern the sport. While plenty shrugged their shoulders or merely gave a nod in appreciation to the feds’ thoroughness, NCAA officials acted as if someone had dropped a pocketful of spiders in their soup.

The good news is the federal investigation forced the folks in Indianapolis to do something they do neither well nor quickly — to act. A commission was formed and more, a commission was empowered and on Wednesday the commission’s recommendations, most improbably of all, were enacted. The NCAA shared a host of legislative changes that were given the stamp of approval by the organization’s board of directors, some of which can be quantified, at least by antiquated NCAA standards, as...